Author Archives: Brian Alvey

The Onion Boxed Set Winners Dan Benjamin of Cary, NC (via www.zeldman.com) Alexis Clay of Jacksonville, FL (via mylnd.blogspot.com) Sean Uberoi Kelly of Seattle, WA (via karenluk.typepad.com) Kat Kinsman of Brooklyn, NY (via www.quietconfusion.com) Scott Kubie of Des Moines, IA (via www.geeklife.com) Thank you, Three Rivers Press!

Slappa HardBody CD Case Grand Prize Winner Angela Mabray of Yukon, OK (via www.deepsun.com) Slappa Runner-up Prize Winners Joshua Bean of Winston-Salem, NC (via www.ewall.org) Monica Horton of Suwanee, GA (via www.welchwrite.com) Dottie Priolo of Salinas, CA (via www.webspiffy.com) Stephanie Rossi of San Francisco, CA (via www.pseudo-cyb.org) Spencer Dylan Smith of Oak Lawn, IL (via www.geeklife.com) Your rugged, velvet-lined CD casesContinue reading “They call it Slappa, Slappa, Slappa…”

The Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN) is built to let me roll out a new weblog in minutes. Adding a new blogger takes even less time (but getting the time to give them a tour of the system and pick their brains about their editorial plans and hidden talents takes me weeks). Adding an entirely newContinue reading “Happy New Gear!”

On one of my other Web sites, they’re trying out a new project and communications management system for small teams called Basecamp. Built by the 37 Signals team, Basecamp claims to be “simple, elegant, powerful, fast, and usable” and it is. Some of the things Basecamp does already exists in a similar form in my Weblogs, Inc.Continue reading “All your Basecamp belong to us?”

I recently had an idea for an international murder mystery in which a noted cryptographer and a famed symbologist untangle dozens of clues that had been hidden in old ’80s songs and I couldn’t decide between my two favorite titles: “The Depeche Code” and “The Bon Jovi Code.” As I did more research on Depeche Mode and Bon Jovi I discovered thatContinue reading “The Bon Jovi Code (or Wanted Dead Or Alive)”

Jack is one year old today. Once I was crazy and my ace in the holewas that I knew that I was crazyso I never lost my self-control.I just walked in the middle of the road.I’d sleep in the middle of the bed.I’d stop in the middle of a sentencewhen the voice in the middle ofContinue reading “Hey junior, where you been so long?”

Last night was the deadline for entering to win The Onion Platinum Prestige Encore Gold Premium Collector’s Collection. Tonight is the end of the Slappa HardBody Blogstakes. Winners will be chosen for both contests next week. Stopdesign’s Doug Bowman posted a glowing review of Blogstakes and promises to let everyone know if a free year of BrowserCam is as life-altering asContinue reading “It creeps and leaps and glides and slides”

I once came across a Weblog that had a single entry. It went something like this: “I am posting this entry to my new Weblog as a reminder to myself to post something new every day and keep this Weblog fresh.” Ironically, the blog had not been updated in months. That was the only entryContinue reading “Beware of the Blog”

After contacting and confirming all of the winners of our first two contests, we received a note from the Free Year of BrowserCam grand prize winner which contained the following: I really appreciate this award and would like to make the most of it. However, I’m in the Army National Guard and my unit has been activatedContinue reading “Iraq of servers”

I’ve got a great new Blogstakes contest: Win The Onion Platinum Prestige Encore Gold Premium Collector’s Collection. It’s three hot books from The Onion for the price of none. Seriously, blog this one. Then enter from your own blog so you can win two copies and give one to a friend. (There’s nothing in the rules that says youContinue reading “Do your eyes water when you read The Onion?”